DESIGN OF COMPOSITION OF CONCRETE USING POLYPROPYLENE FIBRE REINFORCEMENT

Fibre-reinforced concrete is an emerging trend that delivers new materials with high quality for construction. Polyporpylene fibre, an organic textile, has high potential to be used for reinforcing concrete, but there has been little research conducted into using this fibre for concrete reinforcement worldwide and no research work on this fibre reinforced concrete has been published in Vietnam. Thereofore, researchinginto Polyporylene fibre reinforced concrete to establish fundamental understandings and material mixture recommendations is considered to be scientifically significant and practically worthwile, especially for the climate and construction conditionsin Vietnam. With the use of theoretical and experimental research methods,a procedurefordesigning thecomposition of Polypropylene fibre reinforced concrete was achieved and presented in this paper.